1. Throwing all your clothes in the wash basket....for your mum to do

Well you'll need a good selection to last until your next trip home. What else is your mum going to do before you head off?

2. Desperately run around trying to find a big enough suitcase

How are you meant to pack your life into one single suitcase - darn those weight restriction EasyJet. There's just no way you can leave behind....well anything.

3. For the girls, now wondering how you can layer up your clothes

The only way you can get your wardrobe over is to waddle to the wearing five coats, all your jewellery and twelve belts - but they are all essentials.

4. Stockpile packets of Tayto

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I'm sorry but how are you meant to live without Tayto Cheese and Onion for three months. No one else knows how to do crisps. Now how to get them over without bursting the packets (ideas welcome).

5. Head to Boojum for a last delicious burrito

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They may have more chains across the water, but there's no Boojum - you have to make the most of it while you can.

6. Enjoy having running hot water on demand and heat

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Let's face it, most student accommodation isn't always the warmest, and chances are if you're sharing with a crowd, it's inevitable the hot water will run out before you get your shower.

7. Learn some "essential" cooking skills from your parents

If you're not so familiar with your kitchen at home, you'll need to ask a few questions before you head off to live alone. Basically if you can heat stuff up and boil a pot of pasta, you're sorted!

8. Have a takeaway from your favourite local

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I don't know about you but no other Chinese takeaway compares to my local, be sure to enjoy a couple before you go. Be warned "a half and half with curry sauce" isn't understood in some other parts of the UK.

9. Enjoy not having to use public transport...all the time, in all weather conditions!

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Not that there's anything wrong with taking the bus/train, but if you've been used to driving everywhere in your car at home and your not taking it with you across the water, then you best make the most of that freedom to go where ever you want whenever you want. Waiting for the bus to Uni in all weather will soon become your worst nightmare.

10. Enjoy being understood when you speak

Before long you will be being told to "slow down" and being asked why you called an ice cream a 'poke' and ordered to say power shower over and over.

11. One last night out enjoying the 'craic' in Belfast with your old school friends

You might love your uni, but nowhere is as much craic as Belfast. You'll be dying for a night out in Filthy's, Lavery's and 21 Social.

12. Drink a pint of Sukie to shift the hangover

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Nothing tastes better after a night out on the lash than a cold carton of Sukie. In fact all Dale Farm stock should be sold outside Northern Ireland - a pear picking porky would really help get through exam pain.

13. Enjoy your last proper fry for a few months

If it doesn't have soda bread and potato bread, it's not a proper fry. End of.

14. Prepare for an onslaught of questions about Jamie Dornan, Game of Thrones and our colourful political system

No we don't know Jamie Dornan, Rory McIlroy, Liam Neeson, or the Game of Thrones cast - and please don't get us started on our politics.